Mario Soffici

Born: 1900-05-13

Mario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most important and renowned filmmakers during Argentina's golden age of cinema. He was known for his social movies, often filming in different provinces throughout the country.


Placeholder

The Strange Case of the Man and the Beast

as Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Released: 1951-01-11

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and...

Movie page

El curandero

as uncredited
Released: 1955-08-25

A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the...

Movie page

Rosaura at 10 O'Clock

as Padre de Rosaura
Released: 1958-03-06

Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues...

Movie page

Cómo se hace una película argentina

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-01

Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film...

Movie page

Tierra del Fuego

as uncredited
Released: 1948-11-30

Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the...

Movie page

Maternidad sin hombres

as uncredited
Released: 1968-11-07

The story of several women who reach motherhood in difficult conditions.

Movie page

Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

as Martín Saravia
Released: 1976-04-22

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and...

Movie page

Propiedad

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-13

Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the...

Movie page

Isla brava

as uncredited
Released: 1958-09-04

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended...

Movie page

Una ventana a la vida

as uncredited
Released: 1953-08-20

Passion for a woman leads a mature physician to his destruction

Movie page

Buenos Aires Dolls

as Don Antonio
Released: 1931-08-07

A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by...

Movie page

Esta tierra es mía

as Anselmi
Released: 1961-11-06

The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.

Movie page

Los acusados

as Juez Santiago Ibáñez
Released: 1960-03-10

The murder of a man is investigated by a judge but the documentation that the dead man possessed...

Movie page

Gray neighborhood

as Gervasio, el pintor
Released: 1954-10-27

The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the...

Movie page

El linyera

as El Linyera
Released: 1933-09-12

A homeless man returns to the countryside after traveling the world for years.

Movie page

Oro bajo

as Don Enrique
Released: 1956-08-02

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

Movie page

Un elefante color ilusión

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-07

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Movie page